Of the 11 homicides in Seattle this year, one-quarter of them occurred in the last five days.

Last night around 8:30 p.m. a 17-year-old boy was shot in the head by an acquaintance on the 700 block of Airport Way S, according to the Seattle Police Department's Blotter. Police determined that the victim and the 19-year-old suspect had an argument at a park on the shore of Lake Washington earlier that day. After the argument, the soon-to-be-victim was driving down the street with a group a friends—past the other man's house—when the man ran out of his home with an assault rifle and shot once at the victim once in the head, killing him, and ran back into the house. Officers responded to the scene and called out a SWAT team upon receiving information the suspect was still in the house (his mother's house). But after two hours of attempted negotiation, SWAT officers entered the house to discover that the suspect had fled. Police received a tip later that night that the suspect was in a house in South Seattle near SW Andover St. and Delridge Way SW., where officers arrested the man at around 6:30 a.m. Thursday without incident.

On Wednesday at around 12:30 a.m. police were called out to a shooting in the area know as "The Jungle," a homeless encampment on the 1700 block of Airport Way S. under I-5. When officers arrived, SPD Blotter reports, they found a homeless man dead from a single gunshot wound to the stomach. Officers interviewed members of the surrounding camps but couldn't get a description of the suspect.

Garrett McCulloch and Eli Sanders reported on the tragic home invasion that left one woman dead and another badly injured in the South Park neighborhood on Sunday. Police are still asking for assistance for any information on the suspect.

Even so, SPD spokesman Jeff Kappel says crime is at a 41 year low (which was also reported by Jonah Spangenthal-Lee in our June 30 issue). Officer Kappel further states "our homicides are way down from last year, and if you look at the history of Seattle violent crime is way down from the eighties and nineties."